SQL Server Contracts in West London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 33 50
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 6 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.86% 2.82% 1.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.67% 14.29% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile £516 £147 £400
25th Percentile £541 £200 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £652 £448 £600
Median % change year-on-year +45.54% -25.33% +37.30%
75th Percentile £750 £450 £638
90th Percentile - £462 -
London median daily rate £575 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West London

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 36 70 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 17.14% 19.72% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 80
10th Percentile £342 £166 £413
25th Percentile £421 £359 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -19.15% -2.08%
75th Percentile £637 £538 £650
90th Percentile £768 £599 £675
London median daily rate £552 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 10
10th Percentile - £21.87 £61.25
25th Percentile - £29.40 £62.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £41.93 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.89% -44.09% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £54.47 £88.13
90th Percentile £26.35 £61.99 £90.00
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in West London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in West London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in West London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in West London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in West London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in West London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in West London

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the West London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wembley -1 3 £527 +17.63% 3
Hillingdon +6 1 - -
SQL Server
London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) DECT
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (33.33%) Autofac
2 2 (33.33%) Dapper ORM
2 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) StructureMap
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) BPMN
2 2 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) Data Design
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) MCPD
1 2 (33.33%) MCSD
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (33.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Mitel
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas